What connects a shooting in the Queensway Tunnel, a computer hacker taking over Birmingham's advertising boards and a car being beset by people holding bats?

The answer: They are all "news" stories presented to us in recent months that we have proven to be fake.

BirminghamLive is deluged every day with video content captured on mobile phones across the region.

We publish some because it is important or interesting news for Brummies, we turn some down because it is too gory or invasive.

And then there's the fakes.

Believe it or not, in the course of writing this story, another fake news video has been sent to me. This one passes off the Aston bomb from last year as the unexploded bomb removed from Bath Row earlier this year.

Channel 4 has this week exposed one video, which was shared with us recently, watched hundreds of thousands of times.

The Queensway Tunnel (Image: Birmingham Mail)

It was sold elsewhere as "Muslims rioting in Birmingham", showing a Jeep being set upon by people shouting and hitting it with various implements.

It was, of course, shared widely by right-wing activists claiming there were "no-go zones" in our city.

The footage failed to make it through our quality control checks - for one, the vehicle was driving on the wrong side of the road.

It was, in fact, footage of football fans in Switzerland fighting after a match in Basel.